Elliott v. Leavitt

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that firing multiple shots “does not suggest the officers shot mindlessly as much as it indicates that they sought to ensure the elimination of a deadly threat.”
• holding that an officer’s use of deadly force was reasonable when a handcuffed suspect pointed a small handgun at him and the officer ordered the suspect to drop his weapon, which the suspect ignored
• holding that an officer’s use of deadly force was reasonable when a handcuffed suspect pointed a small handgun at him and the officer ordered the suspect to drop his weapon, which the suspect ignored
• concluding that a fatal police shooting was justified where the handcuffed suspect had grasped a handgun, pointed it at officers with his finger on the trigger, and ignored an officer’s directive to drop the firearm
• holding that an officer’s use of deadly force was reasonable when a handcuffed suspect pointed a small handgun at him and the officer ordered the suspect to drop his weapon, a 12 direction that the suspect ignored
• holding officers reasonably feared for their lives when a handcuffed suspect pointed a gun at them and ignored commands to drop it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).